Also on March 20, 1995, in Tokyo, 12 people were killed, more than 5,500 others sickened when packages containing the poisonous gas sarin leaked on five separate subway trains.

On March 21, 1987, ZZ Top played the last show on the 14 month "Afterburner" tour in Honolulu, HI...

On March 22, 1963, the Beatles' first album, "Please Please Me," was released in the U.K...

Also on March 22nd, 1933 During Prohibition, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a measure to make wine and beer containing up to 3.2 percent alcohol legal.

On March 23, 1969, Anita Bryant and the Letterman appeared at a "Rally For Decency" in Miami following Jim Morrison's indecent exposure onstage there...

Also on March 23, 1965, America's first two-person space flight began as Gemini 3 blasted off from Cape Kennedy with astronauts Virgil I. Grissom and John W. Young aboard.

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An Indian village boy runs through a parched field on World Water Day in
Berhampur, Orissa state, India, Monday, March 22, 2010. 'Clean Water for a
Healthy World' is the theme for World Water Day 2010.
-- (AP Photo/Biswaranjan Rout)

On March 24, 1989, the nation's worst oil spill occurred as the supertanker Exxon Valdez ran aground on a reef in Alaska's Prince William Sound and began leaking 11 million gallons of crude.

Also on March 24, 1973, Lou Reed was bitten on his rear end by a fan during a concert in Buffalo, NY. The male fan was ejected from the show...

On March 25, 1947, Elton John was born...

On March 26th, 1780, the first British Sunday newspaper appears (Brit Gazette & Sunday Monitor)...

Also on March 26, 1979, the Camp David peace treaty was signed by Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat at the White House.

On March 27, 1981, AC/DC released "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" in the U.S. It had been released in Australia in 1976...

Also on March 27th, 1939- Oregon won the first NCAA men's basketball tournament with a 46-33 victory over Ohio State in Evanston, Ill.

On March 28, 1979, Eric Clapton and Patti "Layla" Boyd were married. Patti was George Harrison's ex-wife...

Also on March 28th, 1979, America's worst commercial nuclear accident occurred inside the Unit Two reactor at the Three Mile Island plant near Middletown, Pa

On March 29, 1973, Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show appeared on the cover of "Rolling Stone..."

On March 30, 1966, 85 people were arrested for rioting after a Rolling Stones concert in Paris...

On March 31, 1968- President Johnson stunned the country by announcing he would not run for another term of office.

Also on March 31, 1967, Jimi Hendrix began his first British tour with Cat Stevens...

On April 1, 1976, Jimmy Buffett's "Margaritaville" was released...

Also on April 1, 1945, American forces invaded Okinawa during World War II.

On a side note- I was looking at a few "on this day in history" pages the other day and a friend asked "what is that link?' "It's a link to their obituary" "Oh, why isn't their a link to a story about their birth?" Ummm... ok.

On April 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war against Germany, saying, "The world must be made safe for democracy."

Also on April 2, 1967, the Beatles finished recording the album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band..."

On April 3, 1969, Jim Morrison was arrested by the FBI for interstate flight, which stemmed from obscenity charges after a Miami concert...

Also on April 3, 1948, President Truman signed the Marshall Plan, which allocated more than $5 billion in aid for 16 European countries.

On April 4, 1970 , Janis Joplin held a reunion concert with Big Brother & the Holding Company in San Francisco, CA...

Also on April 4, 1968, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., 39, was shot to death in Memphis, Tenn.

On April 5, 1951, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death for conspiring to commit espionage for the Soviet Union.

Also on April 5, 1983, the Beach Boys were banned from the Fourth of July concert at the White House...

On April 6, 1909, explorers Robert E. Peary and Matthew A. Henson became the first men to reach the North Pole. The claim, disputed by skeptics, was upheld in 1989 by the Navigation Foundation

Also on April 6, 1968, Pink Floyd announced founder Syd Barrett has officially left the group due to his suffering from psychiatric disorders compounded by drug use...

On April 7, 1862, Union forces led by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant defeated the Confederates at the battle of Shiloh in Tennessee.

Also on April 7, 1985, Wham! became the first Western act to play in China...

On April 8, 1994, Kurt Cobain was found dead at the age of 27. He had committed suicide three days before...

Also on April 8th, 1513 Explorer Juan Ponce de Leon claimed Florida for Spain.

On April 9, 1973, Queen had its debut performance at the Marquee Theater in London...

Also on April 9, 1865, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia.

Also on April 9, 1917, the Battle of Vimy Ridge commenced, the Canadian Corps suffered 10,602 casualties: 3,598 killed and 7,004 wounded. Also today is End of an Era day, with the passing last month of Mr. John "Jack" Babcock who was the last surviving Canadian veteran of WW1.
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On April 10, 1947, Brooklyn Dodgers president Branch Rickey announced he had purchased the contract of Jackie Robinson from the Montreal Royals.